Term three




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This term our day is going to begin with an inspirational story from a youtube clip. Affective activities will then follow the clip.

Week one

This week we start with a story about a man called Nick Vujicic, who was born with no arms and tiny little feet. His story is truly inspirational and the kids enjoyed learning about the positive way he approaches life. He is an inspirational speaker and there were a few tears when we watched his story. His message is about getting back up when you fall down.

Week two

This week our story is about Daniel Tammet, the boy with the incredible brain. Daniel has savants disease and the kids were fascinated with the way he is able to make extremely complicated calculations in his head. They were also fascinated to learn more about savants disease. These stories are helping them to understand the different people in our communities.

Week three

Our story this week was one that one of the kids asked me to share with the classes, a story about a set of twins who are genius and very different. They call the twins the Rainman twins. The kids were fascinated by the twins and their extraordinary ability to remember dates and what the weather was like on certain days and music albums. The message this week was about acceptance of others and enjoying being gifted. There are struggles in life but they can be overcome with love and care.

Week four

This is an incredible video of a Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for six minutes. Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in Brazil when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation, five thousand miles from her home, herself.
Biography:Severn Cullis-Suzuki was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis. Her father, geneticist and environmental activist David Suzuki, is a third-generation Japanese Canadian.While attending Lord Tennyson Elementary School in French Immersion, at age 9, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues.In 1992, at age 12, Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with group members Michelle Quigg, Vanessa Suttil, and Morgan Geisler, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit, where she was applauded for a speech to the delegates. The video has since become a viral hit, popularly known as "The Girl Who Silenced the World for 6 Minutes". In 1993, she was honoured in the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour.[7] In 1993, Doubleday published her book Tell the World , a 32-page book of environmental steps for families.
Cullis-Suzuki graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a B.Sc. in ecology and evolutionary biology.[3] After Yale, Cullis-Suzuki spent two years travelling. Cullis-Suzuki co-hosted Suzuki's Nature Quest, a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2002.
In early 2002, she helped launch an Internet-based think tank called The Skyfish Project. As a member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Panel, she and members of the Skyfish Project brought their first project, a pledge called the "Recognition of Responsibility", to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August 2002 The Skyfish Project disbanded in 2004 as Cullis-Suzuki turned her focus back to school and enrolled in a graduate course in the University of Victoria to study ethnobotany under Nancy Turner.
Severn is married and lives with her husband and child in Haida Gwaii.
Credits: weightofsilence.wordpress.com

Week five

This young man is an amazing artist at the age of 3! Celebrate your talents - be proud of what you are capable of doing and above all enjoy being a "kid" as well! Zac can also name almost all of the capital cities of the world - an amazing memory.

Week six

Craig Kielburger created an international human rights movement called Free the Children. A documentary excerpted from In Search of Character, a ten part video series from Live Wire Media, produced in association with Character Counts. This week's story shows us that even a small amount makes a difference. We can look after each other, even if we don't know the other person well. We can help others in many different ways.

Week seven

This story is called "The Most Inspirational Story Ever!" Some of the kids have said this video in particular has had a profound effect on them. We talked about he habits of mind and how determination and inspiration are key to success. We talked about what it is like to give up and what it is that makes you keep going even when things seem impossible. An excellent video for anyone to get motivated by.

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